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138 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h \ on: Why the Nordics Are Better... Ish (Bloomberg, Lionel Laurent) Politics_And_Law
I also find it very ironic when progressives point to the Nordic countries as models of well run economies.
First of all, they are not very racially diverse. Secondly, they are about the size of a U.S. city.
If you want US to be like the Nordics, you're basically wanting a return to small, local, racially homogeneous self governed communities. I guess I'm on board with that too???
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Secondly, they are about the size of a U.S. city.
eeeeh, state ok! Finland = Minnesota
small, local, racially homogeneous self governed communities
oh, they wanna be rural Republicans, yesyes? ...but like, with progressive values?
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Minnesota is smaller than either NY or LA and about the same size as the next tier of American cities. Most of our states are smaller than our largest cities.
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I wasn't counting the megacities. They're ridiculous
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The point renains. Social structures are much harder to maintain when they grow and become filled with people with less in common.
The dumb people always equate this to race alone, but really it could be based on anything. The point is, is having a common cultural bond.
Its like trying to decide where to go eat with two people vs 20. Its never easy but everything doesn't scale as well as we'd like it to.
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